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easychris··on European court says linking to illegal content is copyright infringement
That does not mean that this ruling doesn't have any effect on future rulings of "smaller" courts.

The European Court is asked by the local courts how to interpret European laws. Otherwise why should the local court should have asked the European Court in the first place?

I don't have a better source than Wikipedia at the moment[1], but local courts will likely orient their decisions on this one.

[1] https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europ%C3%A4ischer_Gerichtsho...

easychris··on European court says linking to illegal content is copyright infringement
That's not true - at least for Germany. Here a repeated action to earn a profit is considered commercial activity.

I'm not sure what a court would think about 10€/m, but I guess 100€/m would be considered commercial.

EDIT: the common description of being commercial in Germany is: a planned, longer term acting to make money - it's not even necessary to make a profit. Source (in German): http://www.it-recht-kanzlei.de/verbraucher-unternehmer.html

easychris··on Crockford
Agree. I ran a dating site for 7 years and had to deal with such inquiries on a daily basis ("Buhuu, that guy/girl sad mean things to me, close his/her account").

Most often it turned out the complaining person was the problem.

Worst cases were third parties who requested such actions on behalf of the "victim". They were loud, asked other members to complain too and even showed up in our offices to demand account closings - without any proof or valid reasoning.

I never understood how people handle their real lives without being able to argue or verbally discuss such issues. Even if these include occasional insults. IMHO these are just words - you don't need to cry for higher authorities (site admins, conference organizers or law authorities) all the time.

easychris··on DDoS protection
You can pay around €50 to get a new drive - and you can skip the proof that the drive failed or is failing. For us we always choose this option as soon as we see SMART problems arising. Even with occasional drive failures the overall costs are so much lower than cloud hosting or self-owned hardware.
easychris··on DDoS protection
We run a SaaS business there on ~25 servers with Hetzner. Besides small issues we are pretty happy. Feel free to email me if you want to know more details.

Funnily I saw a thread on the customers forum at forum.hetzner.de today about why Hetzner does not have a better reputation social-media wise. Seems not to be on their priority list. There is even an English subforum, you may try to register there and ask for experience by other customers.

easychris··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2016)
easybill.de | Willich, Düsseldorf, Germany | REMOTE

We are looking for a Senior Rails Developer. Remote or onsite.

More: https://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/108322/rails-develope...

easychris··on Would you use this? A keyboard-friendly, social checklist app
I like it. I'm using Todoist currently for my simple todolist stuff but I really would prefer more keyboard support there.

I'm organizing my todo list like this

== today

- task 1

- task 2

- task 3

== tomorrow

- task 4

- task 5

== next week

- task 6

- task 7

etc because some blog article I read about Tadalist suggested this, and it works fine for me. If you want to move e.g. task 2 + 3 into tomorrow, you simply move tomorrow after task 1. I don't like to set up dedicated due dates because most often you won't be able to comply with them anyway...moving stuff into tomorrow / next week etc. is more simple.

Thus you maybe want to add the possibility to add descriptions (which you can move like tasks).

The pricing of Todoist ( 29$/year) sounds reasonable to me.

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